Deliberation with persuasion

The ‘political’ in Aristotle’sPolitics

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ID6235041
AuthorsJun-Hyeok Kwak (0000-0003-2831-0353, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume56
Issue3
Pages318-333
Publication date2021-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAustralian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1036-1146 • E-ISSN: 1363-030X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10361146.2021.1978388
OpenAlexW3202996440
LanguageEN
References cited35

This paper suggests the conception of the ‘political’ in Aristotle’s Politics as an alternative to the Hobbesian conception of the ‘political’. More specifically, I will develop two arguments in this paper. First, investigating Aristotle’s conception of the ‘political’ in the Politics, I will maintain that the ‘political’ rule (πολιτικὴ ἀρχή) is not a political ideal to be realised in the best possible regime but the necessary condition for making political life possible. Second, exploring ‘persuasion’ as the most imperative way in which a particular claim about justice may be justified in democratic deliberation, I will argue that in Aristotle’s conception of the political, democratic deliberation is not constrained by an architectonic political vision or a shared solidarity but guided by persuasion based on the fear of domination under which antagonistic contentions between citizens can contribute to making a tolerably good decision without empowering anyone who knows better

Deliberation · Democracy · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Law and economics · Persuasion · Political science · Politics · Sociology · SOCRATES · Solidarity · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology

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